See Also: elaidin(medicine)

forum (iou) and elaidin (medicine)


forum (iou)



forum noun. . LME.
[Latin, rel. to fores (outside) door, orig. an enclosure surrounding a house.]
Roman Antiquities. The public place or market-place of a city; the place of assembly for judicial and Other business, esp. at Rome. LME.
Gibbon The principal Forum; which appears to have been of a circular, or rather elliptical form.
b. A place of or meeting for public discussion; a periodical etc. which provides an opportunity for conducting a debate. M18.
L. Nkosi During its..run to town the bus becomes a great forum for the airing of political views.
A court, a tribunal (lit. & fig.). L17.
fig.: J. Morley It is truth that in the forum of conscience claims an undivided allegiance.
Comb.: forum shopping (orig. US) the practice by a plaintiff of seeking out the court felt most likely to give a sympathetic hearing to his or her case.

elaidin (medicine)


elaidin
<chemistry> A solid isomeric modification of olein.

Origin: Cf. F. Elaidine.

Source: Websters Dictionary